Research on the Application of Village Regulations and Folk Conventions in Social Governance of Rural Areas

Abstract

Abstract:In the historical development of China's rural society, the village regulations and folk conventions have always been one of the indispensable elements in the process of building and maintaining rural order. After the reform and opening up, China's rural society entered an unprecedented era with great changes. Social interest occurred obvious differentiation, and diversified interest pursuit brought new challenges to the rural social governance mode and means. In this paper, we make the research object located in the applications of village regulations and folk conventions in social governance of rural areas. The establishment of the socialist market economic system has laid the economic foundation of the formation of village regulations and folk conventions. In addition, the pluralistic democratic society provides the political basis for the generation of village regulations and folk conventions. At the same time, village regulations and folk conventions displayed multi-disciplinary value in rural social governance. This study breaks through the limitation of single subject, and starting from the perspective of economics, law, sociology and so on different disciplines, constructs multi-dimensional research paradigm, which is conducive to a comprehensive and profound understanding of functions and value of village regulations and folk conventions in rural social governance.